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‘The Flash,’‘iZombie,’‘Jane the Virgin’: No Sophomore Slumps for The CW’s...
Perhaps a harder task than creating a fully formed, confident first season of television is keeping up that momentum into the second. Exciting as it may be, most shows’ debut seasons are full of...
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Wanda Sykes to Shake Things Up at Stevens and Lido on ‘Blackish’
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wanda Sykes will be heading to ABC for a recurring role on Blackish. This news comes a day after Showtime announced she would be appearing on the upcoming fifth...
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‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones’ Is TV’s Best Comic Book Adaptation, Period
Television reviews can be prone to hyperbolic statements, but let me just get this all out anyway: Marvel’s Jessica Jones is the best Marvel-related television series, it is better than every single...
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‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Breaks Kickstarter Records, Funds Reboot
Nostalgia is in the air thanks to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it’s benefitted the massive built-in fanbase for Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Kickstarter seeking to fund a MST3K reboot has...
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Tessa Thompson in Talks to Join Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez in Alex...
As you might’ve noticed, your friends at Flavorwire are sort of bananas about Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (read all about it here and here and here and here). So we were already keyed up for his next...
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The Clever Caper Comedy ‘Band of Robbers’ Is an Unlikely Model for Twain...
Let’s walk carefully through the plot description and other surface elements of Aaron and Adam Nee’s Band of Robbers, because based on all subsequent assumptions, this movie should be terrible. The...
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25 Stories That Reinvent the ‘Strong Female Character’
I think it’s fair to say I’m a little obsessed with any girl who can handle a broadsword. And not only personally – right now I’m teaching a university class titled Girl Warriors, in which we trace,...
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50 Signs of Hope for Culture in 2016
Everything is terrible. Or, at least, sometimes it feels that way — the presidential election has long since devolved into a bleakly comic farce, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the...
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Staff Picks: ‘Hadestown,’‘Kindred,’ and ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
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This Week’s Top 5 TV Moments: Funny Finales
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you...
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